Country Music Thread

November 30th, 2007 | 25 Comments | Music |

I don’t know why. Can’t stand the stuff. But have at it … Carter Fam­ily or Garth Brooks? Hank Senior, Hank Junior or Hank III? Faith Hill or Sha­nia Twain — and while we’re on the sub­ject sound on or sound off? And where does Lyle Lovett fit in to all this?

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28 Weeks Later

November 26th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Movies |

As opposed to 28 Days Later, which was bet­ter. Spoiler alert!

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Speaking of “Arsenals of Folly”

November 24th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Books |

It’s a really inter­est­ing book. The Times’ review spec­u­lates that the direc­tion of the book changed mid-stream, and I can see that. The really “hot” years of the cold war are skipped through very quickly. But the sec­tions on Cher­nobyl are really har­row­ing. Some of this detail has been pub­lished else­where, but Rhodes puts it […]

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A Strange Sense of Deja Vu

November 24th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Books |

Flip­ping through tomorrow’s New York Times Book Review I see reviews of two books that are, uh, less-than-recent. Richard Rhodes’ “Arse­nals of Folly,” which I touched on briefly here close to four weeks ago, and John Dean’s “Bro­ken Gov­ern­ment,” which has already got a thick layer of dust on it wher­ever it is I set […]

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Four Ways Into Disaster

November 22nd, 2007 | 0 Comments | Books, Politics |

Fin­ished Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doc­trine: The Rise Of Dis­as­ter Cap­i­tal­ism” the other week. It’s a scary take on what the neo-con future of eco­nom­ics looks like.

Much more after the jump. Updated: shock​doc​trine​.org is another good source.

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Planet Terror

November 22nd, 2007 | 0 Comments | Entertainment, Movies |

That wacky duo Quentin Taran­tino and Robert Rodriguez. If you liked “Sin City” you’ll love this one. The first part of the “Grind­house” double-feature, it’s a way-over-the-top hom­mage to a cer­tain kind of splat­tery horror-science-fiction-zombie genre that was com­ing soon to a drive-in near you back in the ‘70s, Planet Ter­ror has a plot too silly […]

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I was afraid to ask.

November 14th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Comedy |

I envi­sioned head­lines like, “Life­long Indi­ans Fan Found In Pool Of Blood.” But Anthony Car­touche is back blog­ging, with a top-10 list of rea­sons why he hasn’t been post­ing — and grist for this blog so I don’t have to come up with rea­sons of my own any­more. Wel­come back, A.C. But really, I’ve got an […]

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A Little Sunday Music

November 11th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Music |

From the last Broad­way Bach Ensem­ble con­cert, here’s the Mozart “Linz” Sym­phony. Put it on your iPod, or click on the giz­mos after the jump to listen.

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& Associates">Teall & Associates

November 8th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Tech Stuff |

We’re pop­ping cham­pagne corks again here at tom​-mcgee​.com world head­quar­ters (ouch! watch where you’re point­ing that!) as a new site launches for Teall & Asso­ciates. Noth­ing fancy here; in fact the client direc­tion was to do exactly the oppo­site. Jon is run­ning a PR agency tar­get­ing major finan­cial firms, so he wanted some­thing really staid. […]

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Reagan and Gorbachev

November 1st, 2007 | 0 Comments | Books |

I’m not even done read­ing Arse­nals of Folly: The Mak­ing of the Nuclear Arms Race yet, but it looks like Richard Rhodes has hit another home run. I was totally blown away, so to speak, by the chap­ter “Look­ing Over The Hori­zon” last night. It’s a minute-by-minute account of the Reyk­javic sum­mit of 1986, when […]

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